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April 6, 2025
Consumer Stories

Good Deeds: Wheels Up

For the fifth consecutive Masters tournament, the Wheels Up team flew into Augusta to help the Golden Harvest Food Bank, before flying in golf fans to visit the Augusta National Golf Course. Last Wednesday, Wheels Up joined the food bank in service at The Master’s Table soup kitchen and also volunteered at the Food Bank’s new Produce Rescue Center, packing and sorting produce. Meals Up was created during the COVID-19 pandemic to address food insecurity, and the company will be donating meals again this year to support the local community

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Neil Gordon April 6, 2025 No Comments
B2B Stories

2 Questions for The Dean: Women’s Leadership Academy

On April 26th, the Hull College of Business will celebrate over Alumni weekend with (5) classes of graduates of a program that is helping to further growth in CSRA businesses. Here’s more on the benefits of Hull through the eyes of businesswomen. ABD: You have a program in the College called the Women’s Leadership Academy. When did the Women’s Leadership Academy roughly start, and how has that gone? HULL: The Women’s Leadership Academy is a program that has been funded and sponsored by the ADP foundation. The original class was

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Neil Gordon April 6, 2025 No Comments
Awards

Pitching Solutions to Real-World Problems

Teams of graduate and undergraduate students at Augusta University presented what they believe can be solutions for real-world challenges. They competed in the 6th Annual INNOVATE Pitch Competition hosted by the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center. The first competition in 2019 was to find solutions for a 15-year-old girl who was living with a colostomy bag, one of an estimated half-million people with the same challenge. Teams were given five minutes to present their solutions to solve a local challenge and improve the community. The pitches were given to

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Dana Lynn McIntyre April 6, 2025 No Comments
Awards

Augusta entrepreneur named Georgia’s Small Business Person of the Year

Patrick Wells will be leaving for a ceremony in Washington D.C. in early May as the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Georgia honoree. He hopes to return to Augusta as the SBA’s Small Business Person of the Year in the U.S. Wells owns Piedmont Landscape Management, a commercial landscape maintenance company in Augusta. Piedmont has been in business since 1977, and in 2019, Wells and his wife bought the business.  Wells will celebrate National Small Business Week from May 4 to 10 along with winners from across the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,

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Neil Gordon April 6, 2025 No Comments